A Dangerous Place: California's Unsettling Fate
- ISBN-10
- 0142003832
- ISBN-13
- 9780142003831
- Series
- A Dangerous Place
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 181
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Penguin Group USA
- Author
- Marc Reisner
Description
Traces the history of California from a largely desert area to a region that has become the most populated state in the country in spite of water supply problems and the certainty of devastating earthquakes. Reprint.
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- 2016-10-03
- 224 pages
- Paperback
- The History Press
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